Nov 3, 2020: Short but sweet H-alpha lunch sessions

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

It has turned quite sunny here, so I trotted out the Coronado SolarMax-II 60 I have in my office at work. At first I thought the activity had died down a little, but then I spotted a prom roughly at the 10 o'clock position, a small filament could be spotted near the limb closer to 11 o'clock. I fiddled a bit with the tuning, and then spotted a sunspot with associated plage coming round the corner around the 4 o'clock position. Detuning showed the spot (s(?)) a bit clearer, whereas double stacking the filter showed the plage with more contrast, at the expense of a much dimmer image. The forecast here is looking quite good, so hopefully I will be able to follow the new AR across the disc for a while